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Mexico is our next-door neighbor but it seems many Americans are not well-informed about it. Wrong and outdated impressions of Mexico affect our policymakers as well. This is particularly true regarding border and immigration policy. Americans think of Mexico as a poor country. And it is, compared to the United States. But Mexico is wealthier and has a higher standard of living than most countries in Latin America and Africa. There are, of course, many poor Mexicans. But doesn’t Mexico itself, with all its wealth, have a responsibility to help its own poor people? In the U.S., any meddling perpetrated...

From the very beginning, the Moscow Metro was designed as an instrument of propaganda as well as transportation. Its grandiose stations were not only a projection of the power of the regime but also designed as a promise of sorts, a glimpse for the Soviet people of the heaven on earth that communism would (one day) deliver. It was perhaps thus appropriate that some of its marble was said (probably accurately) to have come from the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which had been blown up on Stalin’s orders just a year or two before work on the metro began...

VIDEOOnly one person had more at stake inside the hearing at Judge Scott McAfee's courtroom than Fani Willis today. That was Michael Isikoff because he just spent two years of his life writing, along with co-author Dan Klaidman, "Find Me The Votes" whose premise went on life support almost at the very moment of publication when the Willis-Wade scandal broke. It would be no surprise to see his book soon appearing on Dollar Store shelves based on what happened on the first day of the hearing.

What should be the attitude of the media towards someone notable for being the purveyor of the biggest election 2020 fake news story? Shun them? That would be the correct attitude for such journalism malpractice. However, in the case of CNN it actually promoted such a person. Natasha Bertrand who was the main person behind promoting the fake news story in Politico that the New York Post report in October 2020 revealing the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop was a result of Russian disinformation.The CNN announcement on Tuesday of Bertrand's promotion on X (which everyone still calls Twitter) went over...

A fire at an oil depot in Russia's Kursk Region following a Ukrainian drone attack... "Nevertheless, apparently, everything is possible in present-day America" Russian President Vladimir Putin commenting on the notion that Tucker Carlson will be arrested... A mayor in the UK kicked out of the Conservative Party following a complaint about Anti-Semitic comments... In Kansas City shots fired at the Super Bowl victory celebration...one person killed a disc jockey for a local radio station...21 others hurt...between the ages of six and 15... Drivers who carry people and make deliveries on strike today over low pay... "rude name calling"...reaction Republican...

Santa Cruz filmmaker Dan Partland, an Emmy-Award winner and unflinching voice of sanity in insane times, still remembers what book he was reading over the December 2020 holiday break: Katherine Stewart’s The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.

Secret Ingredients, Ingredient Secrets Food is a central part of our lives, our cultures, and even our urban myths. Many media-perpetuated and classroom-circulated legends center around common snacks, fast food chains — even water — and our concerns or fears, even if unfounded, about them. Here's how many of them began; which are true; which are false; and which are somewhere in between. A related myth exists about whether Jack in the Box uses actual meat in its tacos — a menu item loved by some and loathed by others. A popular rumor suggests that instead of ground beef the...

The New Mexico seat is just one of many that Republicans are hoping to pick up in what could be a very good year for them, especially in comparison to the 2022 midterm elections.

The depopulation bomb imploding in China is more powerful than ever according to shocking new figures just published by Australia's Victoria University in Melbourne. It just seems like last month [It was just last month, Steve — editor] that I reported for you that Chinese women seemed to be voting against strongman Xi Jinping's return to True Communism™ with the only means available to them — their uteri. Live births were down in 2023 by another 500,000 under 2022's dismal figure. That puts the People's Republic fertility rate nearly at 1.0, or about half of the 2.1 required just to...

"I remember asking myself questions. I'm trying to be a better man, I'm trying to be a good man. And I remember asking myself the question, what is a good man, and I was dwelling on it for weeks. I pride myself on being a good man. But really what is that? I'm sitting in my prayer time, my quiet time, God started speaking to me, telling me a good man is a dead man. And at first I heard that and I was like, I don't really know what that means. I want to live. But then he revealed...

It was easily one of the notable moments of President Joe Biden's Thursday press conference in which he angrily denounced Special Counsel Robert Hur for highlighting his memory loss several times in his report. Yet Politico neglected to mention how Biden seemingly failed to recall the name of the church he got the rosary from to memorialize his deceased son Beau. Here's that highly embarrassing moment for Biden that shocked viewers yet Politico disingenuously left out of their reports of the press conference.

Support Free Republic... What was that on Thursday evening was it the "Putin-Biden Debate"... I think there's some football game this weekend a lot of churches having events related to it I notice so let's go with a "Football Update"... The Joe Biden Update bring out the Benny Hill music... Why not an actual Benny Hill "Yakety Sax" show close to intro Joe Biden... And in his own words the Physical Occupant Of The White House... Are they trying to create sympathy for Biden... Back in the 1970's as a teenager I read all three volumes of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag...

Francois Bayrou and his "Democratic Movement" were an important "centrist" party in the parliamentary majority enjoyed by President Emmanuel Macron after Macron won his first term as President in 2017. This week, Mr. Bayrou, a former Education Minister, found his name in the news suggested as a new Defense Minister for France... Getting back to the political weakness of the Centrist government. Just days ago First Round polling for the 2027 Presidential Election Marine Le Pen at 36 percent. Current Prine Minister Gabirel Attal and Le Havre Mayor and former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe trailing when matched up against her......

“They are willing to kill people à la Kelly Loeffler’s aide in Georgia, who was suddenly blown up in his car on the way to a rally for her. He happened to be dating Governor Kemp’s daughter. Governor Kemp was considering, I think, at that point a signature audit,” Powell said. She continued, “And then the Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent, who was investigating that—he was suddenly dead within a week of that. And we don’t hear anything about that?” she asked.

(FOX40.COM) — Days after over 80 vehicles were towed during a sideshow in Stockton, San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said that no one will be getting their cars back anytime soon. “We’re getting a tremendous amount of calls from people wanting their vehicles back,” said San Joaquin County Sheriff Patrick Withrow. “To those people whose vehicle we have in our possession, they can stop calling.” [snip] He added that vehicles deemed to be a public nuisance face the possibility of being destroyed.

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Calling for governments to enact a "global moratorium" on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could have been a death sentence for a scientist's career not long ago. Now it opens the door to a prestigious science publisher. The Springer Nature medical journal Cureus, sibling to Nature and Scientific American, published a peer-reviewed paper by high-profile mRNA vaccine critics last month, showing the growing mainstream openness to data and arguments once nitpicked if not ignored by publishers and suppressed by academia and Big Tech. The feds have struggled to keep interest high in each new formulation of the COVID vaccines, with fewer than...

VIDEOLiberals in general and at MSNBC in particular are now in the "freak out stage" over what to them is the maddening DELAY of President Trump's J6 trial due to his immunity appeal. If you don't believe me then you can hear them say they are freaking out in this MSNBC show hosted by Jen Psaki in which guests Neal Katyal and Andrew Weissman declare their panic attack freak out status.

VIDEOLiberals are now in a state of deep deep DESPAIR due to their beloved J6 trial date, originally scheduled for March 4, 2024 has been DELAYED. Oh the misery! Oh the angst! But not to worry. MSNBC's legal analyst Glenn Kirschner is there to comfort them and talk them down from the building ledge with his warm reassurances that the J6 trial, although delayed indefinitely, will be almost certain to be rescheduled to well before the November election. The only problem, as you can see, is that Kirschner's J6 trial prognostications have not been exactly stellar.

Lakeville North High School Principal Kim Budde said, “Any student found sharing or posting video of these incidents will face the possibility of disciplinary action.”